The company was set up in November 2008 and has experienced rapid
client and financial growth over the last three years through
delivering:
through
taught sessions, to equip
them to become effective, skilled and knowledgeable, shared service
practitioners (SSPrac) and
shared service architects (SSA) and even gain professional recognition in the
public and private sector
through the UK’s first Postgraduate Certificate in Shared Services.
through mentoring and in-house taught management programmes,
to build shared service architect capabilities within organisations. This will
increase their capacity
and culture to successfully collaborate with other organisations and reap the
full efficiency, improvement
and political gains that shared services can deliver.
providing cross-partner taught programmes, and
partnership gateway reviews,
to build momentum within partnerships and accelerate the shared service journey
and successful
outcomes.
to equip key individuals in a shared
service partnership to sustain
its momentum or revive flagging activity.
in partnership with Canterbury Christ Church University. The 6 month,
postgrad certificate was launched in October 2010 with a pilot cohort
of six students who completed their learning in May 2011 and were
presented with their certificates by Sir Merrick Cockell, Chair of the
Local Government Association in July 2011.
There were 15 students on the second cohort which begain in February 2011 and a third cohort has started in October 2011.
that can reveal in days,
what takes months
using post-it notes and Excel spreadsheets during the business plan and service design
stages.
the only magazine in the UK focusing purely on shared services and providing regular case
studies, reviews and reflections
to enhance the learning of shared service practitioners in their work.
...providing links to over
600 shared service case
studies, reports, documents and tools. Now possibly the largest library of its
kind in the world.
a taught session of essential learning for practitioners before they get 'behind the wheel' of a shared service.
40 tools, techniques
and templates for building trust and
shared vision in public sector shared services.
50 tools, templates and techniques
for drafting the majority of a shared service business case in-house.
essential tools,
techniques and templates for accelerating innovative shared services in the public
sector.